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Opinion: Turkey – The Brotherhood’s Last Station (1/2)

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 15, 2016 | Opinion

Since its inception ninety years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood was never as influential and dangerous as it was after the January 25 Egyptian revolution. Now, however, it is losing ground and its last stronghold is falling. Turkey has started to actually expel the...

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U.N. Secretary General Bank Ki-moon shaking hands with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir

Jubeir, Ban Discuss ‘Abuse Report’ in Meeting Focusing on Yemen

by Jordan Dakamseh | Jul 15, 2016 | Middle East

New York-Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir met on Wednesday with United Nations Security General Ban Ki-moon as both discussed bilateral relations, Yemen and Syria. They further discussed a U.N. report on children and armed conflict that briefly blacklisted a...

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File photo provided by the UNESCO official website shows a view of Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape along the Zuojiang River in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

UNESCO Adds 4 Sites on Its World Heritage List

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 15, 2016 | World

UNESCO has inscribed four new sites in China, India, Iran and Micronesia on its World Heritage List. The new sites, announced Friday, include China’s Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape, Iran’s ancient aqueducts known as Qanat, and India’s...

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A sign marks the headquarters of State Street Bank in Boston, Massachusetts May 18, 2009. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Investors Get Stung Twice by Executives’ Lavish Pay Packages

by Gretchen Morgenson | Jul 15, 2016 | Business

It’s a frustrating fact of life for many mutual fund investors: Even if they’re distressed by outsize executive compensation at public companies whose shares they indirectly own, chances are good that the votes cast by their investment managers actually encourage...

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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has released a series of decrees ordering that rebels who have accepted an amnesty offer be integrated into the army. Reuters

South Sudanese President to Substitute Machar…Government Denies

by Mustafa Sirri | Jul 15, 2016 | Middle East

London-Multiple sources have confirmed that on Thursday many ministers from Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) in the transitional government of national unity have been rounded up from various hotels and arrested after sporadic gunfire...